Archive for the Tips and tricks Category
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The Trans-Siberian railway takes you now from Moscow to Beijing and back
A great new train travel experience is launched these days – on 29th August the first train will reach Beijing as part of the The Trans-Siberian tour with the train. The Moscow - Beijing Train is a joint project between two tour operators, RZD Tour
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How to make the best of a city visit: travel tips – money, accommodation, transportation, shopping etc.
While traveling we want to make the best of every place we visit. Sometimes we realize after getting back home or reaching in another place that we could have seen/done more in our trip. This is why I decided to share with you today my travel tips fo
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The most important thing as a traveler – the golden rule
Each person that travels discovers new places, enjoys new foods, people, countries, cultures and so on. In order to manage to really have a great time, I think that there is a golden rule of traveling, something that can be considered as the most imp
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The legend(s) of Martisor – The “Holiday” on March 1st
It’s 1st of March - a new month, a new season and also a day when mainly women receive some symbols called “martisoare”. Martisor literally means little (or dear) March - and it’s also the popular name of this month in Romania. Martisor is al
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How to enjoy travel during bad weather
Maybe you have carefully planned your vacation in order to enjoy the best weather possible. But no one has a contract with “good ol’ Mother Nature”, so there is no guarantee of how weather is really gonna be like. You can imagine that while in
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The Dutch Way
If you plan to visit or travel around the Netherlands you should have in mind a couple of things before coming this way. I landed here 2 months ago and I still find out things that are peculiar to me (like the garbage container which has working hour
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Photo of the week: The Danube Delta (Delta Dunării)
In Romania there’s a special place. A paradise - and I’m not saying big words! It’s an unique place in the world: the Danube Delta. It’s here that Europe's second longest river - the Danube - finally meets the Black Sea. Today a photo fr
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L’Aquàrium – Barcelona, Spain
Aquariums are special places to visit in different countries. Recently a friend of mine visited L’Aquàrium in Barcelona, Spain. She told me it was quite an experience. First of all she was impressed by the size of this aquarium. There are 11,00
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Scarisoara – an ice cave and the oldest glacier in the world
Summer and cold? Heaven for me (someone living in the heat of Bucharest during summer). We’ve spent one of the first days of our vacation in the Apuseni Mountains (Western Carpathians) from this year visiting two caves: the one at Scarisoara and
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The Turda Saline – a great place to visit in Romania for pleasure, fun and health
Located at 30 km from the city of Cluj, along DN1 (national road 1), Turda is a town famous in history for its salt mine. The first documented proof of salt extraction in Turda dates from 1271. Between 2008-2010 the salt mine in Turda was renovate
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